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- 11 Mar 2024, 18:36
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: An Extreme "Measure"
- Replies: 7
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An Extreme "Measure"
I think that Beethoven's distaste for changing stem direction in the middle of a pattern reaches a zenith in this example from the first movement of the "Waldstein" Sonata: Beethoven op 53.1 centered beam.png An interpretation: He can't make the chord at A down stem because it is the last ...
- 11 Mar 2024, 15:20
- Forum: Type and Font Design
- Topic: Accent shape
- Replies: 9
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Re: Accent shape
I also prefer narrow accent marks and replaced the Maestro one with the Engraver in Finale. Engraver does look little narrow when placed with the others in your example, but I like it a lot in actual use. I don't think I would like the thicker bottom line if used with Maestro, but it might look good...
- 11 Mar 2024, 15:07
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Subito indications?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 295
Re: Subito indications?
Might that, sometimes at least, depend more on space or alignment with other things than on any absolute preference? Thanks, David. It might in some cases, but do you have a preference if there are no special considerations? I have found myself using "p sub." etc., more often as of late. ...
- 11 Mar 2024, 11:43
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Subito indications?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 295
Subito indications?
When did subito dynamic indications first start to be used? I don't recall any in music before the late 19th century.
And which form is more common in the past and today: subito and sub. or subito and sub. etc.?
And which form is more common in the past and today: subito and sub. or subito and sub. etc.?
- 10 Mar 2024, 11:58
- Forum: Problems and Solutions (Help)
- Topic: Rhythmical alignment between voices
- Replies: 7
- Views: 382
Re: Rhythmical alignment between voices
Why the composer wrote the F with fermata as an 8th instead of a 16th is a mystery A sixteenth might imply too short a hold. Judging from the rest of the notation, the composer wanted the singer to hold the F beyond the length of the A in the cello and only then start the cadenza. But there was a d...
- 09 Mar 2024, 17:25
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Another Beethoven centered beam
- Replies: 20
- Views: 683
Re: Another Beethoven centered beam
I know what you mean. Straight braces are a little ""cold". Curly braces were even used for orchestral scores, way "back in the day."
- 09 Mar 2024, 14:09
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Another Beethoven centered beam
- Replies: 20
- Views: 683
Re: Another Beethoven centered beam
Fooled me. I thought: very strange piano fingering...
I'm accustomed to seeing a straight brace for instrumental duets rather than a piano brace. I went looking around at IMSLP a little and found one use of a piano brace. Maybe a cello tradition? The rest were straight braces.
I'm accustomed to seeing a straight brace for instrumental duets rather than a piano brace. I went looking around at IMSLP a little and found one use of a piano brace. Maybe a cello tradition? The rest were straight braces.
- 09 Mar 2024, 03:15
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Another Beethoven centered beam
- Replies: 20
- Views: 683
Re: Another Beethoven centered beam
The centered beam and slurring look fine to me. Centered beams over large intervals never really went out of fashion. I did wonder about the numbers. Is that piano fingering?
- 08 Mar 2024, 22:11
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Another Beethoven centered beam
- Replies: 20
- Views: 683
Re: Another Beethoven centered beam
Thanks, Neera. I've done so many of these centered beams now that it has become much easier. Of course it would be great if the software were doing this automatically. But I don't think I'll suggest it at Dorico headquarters. They have enough "regular" stuff on their hands. I just found th...
- 08 Mar 2024, 21:52
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Another Beethoven centered beam
- Replies: 20
- Views: 683
Re: Another Beethoven centered beam
I decided to use a centered beam with a footnote explaining the situation, Neera It seems that the tradition of converting centered beams into broken beams didn't die out in the 19th century. Here is what Schenker did with a passage from the third movement of Beethoven's Sonata op. 31. 2. First exce...